Otto Gutfreund

Otto Gutfreund in the Foreign Legion, 1914

Otto Gutfreund (born August 3, 1889 in Dvůr Králové , Austria-Hungary , † June 2, 1927 in Prague ) was a Czech sculptor and painter. He is one of the most important representatives of Czech Cubism .

Life

Gutfreund was born into a Jewish family in northern Bohemia. He studied between 1903 and 1906 under the direction of Josef Drahoňovský at the technical school for ceramics in Bechyně . He then went to Paris to study with Antoine Bourdelle at the Académie de la Grande Chaumière . There he had first contact with Cubism. After completing his studies, he returned to Prague in 1910. Here he was a co-founder of the artist group Skupina výtvarných umělců in 1911 . He published in magazines and was in good contact with Emil Filla . He was among the Czech artists, Vincenc Beneš , Filla, Pavel Janák and Antonín Procházka , who exhibited at the First German Autumn Salon in Berlin in 1913 .

In response to the outbreak of war, he - back in France - voluntarily joined the Czechoslovak legions . In 1920 he returned to Prague again, where he joined the Mánes Art Association. From this point on, his work is assigned to the New Objectivity . In 1926 he received the chair for architectural sculpture at the School of Applied Arts in Prague .

Gutfreund drowned in the Vltava River in Prague on June 2, 1927 and is buried in the Vinohrady cemetery .

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After his formative Cubist period (1911-1919) Gutfreund accepted various government contracts in which he praised the citizens of the Czechoslovak Republic. From 1927 he devoted himself again to modern art, where he continued to occupy himself with abstract sculpture.

Cello player 1912/13
Looking up
TG Masaryk
5- crown piece

Web links

Commons : Otto Gutfreund - Collection of images, videos and audio files

Literature by and about Otto Gutfreund in the catalog of the German National Library
Literature and other media by and about Otto Gutfreund in the catalog of the National Library of the Czech Republic
Gutfreund Otto in the abART database

Individual evidence

^ Stefan Dürre: Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 175 .

personal data
SURNAME	Good friend, Otto
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Czech sculptor
DATE OF BIRTH	August 3, 1889
PLACE OF BIRTH	Dvůr Králové
DATE OF DEATH	June 2, 1927
Place of death	Prague

[1] Stefan Dürre: Seemanns Lexikon der Skulptur . EA Seemann Verlag, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-86502-101-4 , pp. 175 .